Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://doi.org/10.1017/S002246341700056X
Title: The value of Admiral Matelieff's writings for studying the history of Southeast Asia, c.1600-1620
Authors: Borschberg, Peter 
Issue Date: 1-Oct-2017
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Citation: Borschberg, Peter (2017-10-01). The value of Admiral Matelieff's writings for studying the history of Southeast Asia, c.1600-1620. Journal of Southeast Asian Studies 48 (3) : 414-435. ScholarBank@NUS Repository. https://doi.org/10.1017/S002246341700056X
Abstract: © 2017 The National University of Singapore. Cornelis Matelieff de Jonge (also Cornelis Cornelisz. Matelief) was a director of the Dutch East India Company (VOC) and fleet commander of a voyage to the East Indies in 1605-08. On his return to the Dutch Republic in September 1608, he wrote a series of epistolary memorials, or 'discourses', in which he recommended sweeping reforms in the way in which the VOC conducted business in Asia. Not only did these recommendations serve as a blueprint for subsequent developments of the VOC during the early seventeenth century, the documents also made astute observations about the dynamics of trade, geopolitics, agency of the Asian rulers as well as political power on the Malay Peninsula, Java, Maluku and Borneo. This article problematises these primary sources and demonstrates how they can be profitably mined for the history of trade and diplomacy of early seventeenth century Southeast Asia.
Source Title: Journal of Southeast Asian Studies
URI: https://scholarbank.nus.edu.sg/handle/10635/154772
ISSN: 0022-4634
1474-0680
DOI: 10.1017/S002246341700056X
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